12-11-2010, 06:02 PM | #1 |
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epub to mobi conversion hangs
I'm having trouble converting some titles from epub to mobi.
The conversion seems to hang at 47%. The last few lines in the progress trace are: Transformed CSS selector h|span.BodyText2Char to h|span.bodytext2char Transformed CSS selector h|span.msoIns to h|span.msoins Transformed CSS selector h|span.msoDel to h|span.msodel Transformed CSS selector h|div.Section1 to h|div.section1 The last attempt has been running for 40 minutes. The ebup file is 542kB. I don't think it should be taking this long. Am I right? The computer is a dual core AMD Athlon running Win 7. It's generally pretty fast. Even though progress seems to be halted, one of the CPU's is at 75%. I assume that's the one doing the conversion. Any thoughts? Thanks |
12-11-2010, 07:31 PM | #2 | |
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Don't let the 47% confuse you it could go straight from 47% to complete or it might go to 67% for a while. Have patience it will complete in its own time. Fortunately these long conversions are the exception and not the norm. Last edited by DoctorOhh; 12-11-2010 at 07:33 PM. |
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12-11-2010, 08:33 PM | #3 |
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As an alternative, you can right click the book in Calibre and choose "Tweak Epub" and then "Explode Epub". This will take you to a temporary folder where you will find all the bits of your book. Open the contents folder and drag it into a "new book" in Mobipocket Creator, add the cover and fix the meta data. Then you can "Build" a prc version of the book. Sounds complicated, but it's not, takes just a couple of minutes.
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First off it isn't always the contents folder, in my library it is rarely the contents folder. Also often the "contents" will be dozens of separate html files. I'm not familiar with mobipocket, are you saying it can take many html files as input and spit out a mobi book with all the parts as output? If so you learn something new everyday.
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Yep, Mobipocket Creator Professional. Download free from Mobipocket website. You do need to be careful that the html files stay in the right order when you drag them into the publication window (but they are numbered sequentially). Every once in a while I find a html gets inserted in the wrong order, but you can drag the file or click on the move down button. It will also build you a TOC.
It's still generally much faster than letting Calibre run for an hour. cheers |
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12-11-2010, 10:11 PM | #6 |
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Yes. It finally completed. Took 80 minutes.
I added a second title to be converted and between the two CPU usage ran at 100%. It would be nice if calibre had some way to limit CPU usage even if the conversion took a bit longer. Thanks for all your suggestions. |
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Of 4300 epub files I've converted only 3 or 4 have taken a very long time to convert. |
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12-12-2010, 09:32 AM | #8 |
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Thanks! I changed the job priority and my PC is much more responsive.
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